Month: March 2004
Sat Nav PDA on the cheap
Interesting spot on the Halfords website. The car accessory company is offering a microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC PDA with integrated GPS for just £400 – much cheaper than rival GPS/PDA combis. The device, the Medion Satellite Navigation System,…
Sharp LCDs go up market
Sharp is repositioning its LCD TV line-up to take on companies like Loewe – claims ERT – with the launch of a new range of high-end Aquos Titanium models. Set to hit the market in the summer, the new…
Amstrad Sky+ box arrives
It's been talked about for a while. But now it looks like the Amstrad Sky+ box is finally here. The new Amstrad DRX-180 features a 40Gb hard drive (for 20 hours recording), optical audio output, twin tuners and a…
Loads of new phones @ CeBIT
It's a big week in consumer electronics for come Wednesday half the industry will be hotfooting it to the, ahem, picturesque city of Hannover for Europe's biggest tech-fest CeBIT. Last year's show was, quite frankly, pants and not even…
Swiss Army knife for techies
Well it had to happen. Swissbit, bet you can't guess where they come from, is to offer a Swiss Army knife from techies. In addition to the staples – knife, corkscrew and tin opener – the USB Swiss Army…
Three's hit phone – err it's a Nokia
Well it looks like UK 3G phone network Three has a hit handset on its hands – but ironically it is not one wearing the badge of its partners NEC or Motorola. According to the Carphone Warehouse, which kind…
Europe's first two mega pixel camera phone
Sharp, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola may all be lining up mega pixel camera phones. But Austrian maker Tel-Me, which has had a limited presence in the UK, has gone one better. According to Gizmodo it is lining up…
Motorola/MTV mobiles
Motorola is teaming up with MTV to produce a series of phones featuring dedicated software from the music channel, targeted at the youth market. The trio of models, (E398, E680 and C650) all feature music-based sounds and actions across…
Mobiles for love cheats
Great news for love cheats reports the Daily Mirror. There's new software coming for Nokia mobile phones that lets phone users disguise where they are by producing fake background sounds. So for example the push of a button, callers…
BT adds more broadband packages
Following its announcement earlier this week about a no-frills 512Kbps broadband service for £19.99 per month (for up to 1Gb of data), BT has unveiled a whole raft of new broadband packages aimed at different types of users. The new…